Sunday, April 30, 2006

Pacenet on Ubuntu

Pacenet doesn't work on Ubuntu if you are using their low bandwidth plans. I don't understand thier company's policy why do they have to do that. They use DHCP for alloting IP. They also provide a dialer for windows. But they couldn't do that for Linux. Linux need 72kbps account. Who will buy that.

Their dialer encrypts the password and sents it to their site.
Using Ethereal I came to know my encrypted password.

To set up Pacenet on Ubuntu 5.10 Breezer I tried with.
sudo pppoeconf
Then just keep most of the things default go according to their instructions and your net is set. You just have to say sudo pon. This should ideally put your net on but what I use to get is this.
I tried various ways. My problem which I thought was MTU/MRU problem.


~$ sudo pppoeconf
Password:
Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
~$ plog
Apr 1 11:41:45 localhost pppd[10685]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500
Apr 1 11:41:45 localhost pppd[10685]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
Apr 1 11:41:45 localhost pppd[10685]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500
Apr 1 11:41:45 localhost pppd[10685]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
Apr 1 11:41:55 localhost pppd[10685]: CHAP authentication failed: I don't like you. Go 'way.
Apr 1 11:41:55 localhost pppd[10685]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500
Apr 1 11:41:55 localhost pppd[10685]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
Apr 1 11:41:55 localhost pppd[10685]: Connection terminated.
~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:26:87:9F:BA
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:26ff:fe87:9fba/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:53905 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5421421 (5.1 MiB) TX bytes:13674 (13.3 KiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:13909 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13909 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1052408 (1.0 MiB) TX bytes:1052408 (1.0 MiB)

~$ sudo poff


I guess this must be my last try for Pacenet. Well now I have switched on to sify. It is little expensive but I am enjoying good speed...haha

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